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PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

2024 Civil Re-Opening

How to read contract values: notice stages, dates and worked examples

The Legal Aid Agency · published 20 Oct 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

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Contracts Finder release ID5f8bf0e0-e24a-432b-ba85-22c5aab4ea35-918450
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-ff2ff620-9180-4c08-9d96-bf26ec975da9
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-148211
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£7,781,577
award field
Tender value
£7,781,577
tender field
Procurement method
Open procedure (below threshold)
Category
services
CPV
79100000
Legal services
Delivery
North East, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

In addition to the volume already identified through earlier procurement processes, the directory of providers has been updated accordingly for contracts awarded from July 2026 to September 2026 which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/re-opening-2024-standard-civil-contract-procurement-process Additional information: The outcome of the tender is published on the following links below:

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

Source-date conflictAt least one reported end date precedes its corresponding start date. Check the official notice before using the schedule.
  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release20 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published1 Jan 2025
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published31 Dec 2024End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published1 Jan 2025
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published30 Jun 2028
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.

Published name only

Multiple suppliers

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 20 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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